Fw: Newsgroups and Mailing Lists (Off-Topic)

no fun jbridel1 at home.com
Fri Sep 28 17:21:45 CDT 2001


Q: How many Newsgroup members does it take to change a light bulb? 
A: 1,331: 
1 to change the light bulb and to post to the newsgroup that the 
light 
bulb 
has been changed. 
14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the 
light 
bulb could have been changed differently. 
7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs. 
27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light 
bulbs. 
53 to flame the spell checkers. 
156 to write to the newsgroup complaining about the light bulb 
discussion 
and its inappropriateness to this newsgroup. 
41 to correct spelling in the spelling/grammar flames. 
109 to post that the newsgroup is not about light bulbs and to please 
take 
this posting to alt.lite.bulb 
203 to demand that cross posting to alt.grammar, alt.spelling and 
alt.punctuation about changing light bulbs be stopped. 
111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use light 
bulbs 
and therefore the posts **are** relevant to this mail list. 
306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where 
to 
buy 
the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this 
technique, and what brands are faulty. 
27 to post URLs where one can see examples of different light bulbs. 
14 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly, and to post 
corrected 
URLs. 
3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to 
this 

list which makes light bulbs relevant to this list. 
33 to merge all posts to date, then quote them including all headers 
and 

footers, and then add "Me Too." 
12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they 
cannot 
handle the light bulb controversy. 
19 to quote the "Me Too's" to say, "Me Three." 
4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ. 
1 to propose new alt.change.lite.bulb newsgroup. 
47 to say this is just what alt.physic.cold_fusion was meant for, 
leave 
it 
here. 
143 votes for alt.lite.bulb. 

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